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[Lisa Perry <lkvp AT floydva.net>]

tvoivozhd wrote:

>    The New York Times  -  January 19, 2005
> *OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR*
>    Caught Between Church and State
> *By SUSAN JACOBY *
>
> Texas, then as now one of the largest textbook purchasers, led the 
> drive to extirpate evolution. "I am a Christian mother," said Gov. 
> Miriam Ferguson of Texas." "And I am not going to let that kind of rot 
> go into Texas textbooks." Mrs. Ferguson personally censored textbooks 
> while presiding over the statehouse from 1924 to 1926. Censorship was 
> soon institutionalized in a state commission that scrutinized all 
> potential textbooks.

These articles from the Associated Press are in today's issue of The 
Roanoke Times, I have not included every paragraph. 

PA Students Hear About 'Intelligent Design'

Harrisburg, Pa. -- High school students heard about 'intelligent design' 
for the first time Tuesday in a school district that attracted national 
attention by requiring students to be made aware of it as an alternative 
to the theory of evolution.

Administrators in the Dover Area School District read astatement to 
three biology classes Tuesday and were expected to read it to other 
classes today, according to a statement from the Thomas More Law Center 
in Ann Arbor, Mich., speaking on the district's behalf.

The district is believed to be the only one in the nation to require 
students to hear about a concept that holds that the universe is so 
complex, it had to be created by an unspecified guiding force.
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School Officials in Georgia Want 'Theory' Stickers

Marietta, Ga. -- Members of a suburban district's school boatrd plan to 
challenge a federal judge's order to remove stickers in science 
textbooks that call evolution "a theory, not a fact."

In a 5-2 vote, the Cobb County school board decided to appeal last 
week's ruling.

Board members said U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper's order to remove 
the stickers immediately "amounts to unnecessary judicial intrusion into 
localcontrol of schools," according to a statement.
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